School catering
The council provides a school catering service through contract
services which is a non-profit organisation within the Tower
Hamlets’ Children, Schools and Families
(CSF) department.
CSF Contract Services (CSFCS) provides catering and cleaning
services to schools and other organisations across Tower Hamlets.
The service is also responsible for the Meals on Wheels service on
behalf of adult health and wellbeing.
CSFCS operates:
- the catering service in 98 per cent of schools
- the cleaning service to 40 per cent of schools
- the welfare catering service throughout Tower Hamlets
Schools hold their own budgets for catering and cleaning
services and choose their own providers. CSFCS aims to offer a
value for money service to schools and continuously considers
innovative ways in which the service can be improved. An agreement
with schools is set up for these services with annual renewals
negotiated with the schools.
CSFCS also supplies the following:
- catering for functions
- training and meeting rooms
Please see below for more information on these services.
Training and meeting rooms
Large rooms with a seating capacity for 25 people in each of the
rooms are available at Toby Lane council offices which can be used
for either training or meetings. The use of televisions, videos,
flip charts, white boards and overhead projectors are included in
the rates below.
The Toby Lane council office meeting rooms are available from
8am until 4pm and are charged out at the following rates:
Half day: £75
Full day: £150
Refreshments, including lunch can be ordered from the services
Special Catering Menu.
You can view the
special catering menu and order form (pdf 75kb) and order online.
If you require further information please call our offices
on 020 7364 5161.
Useful links
My School Lunch
My School Lunch
is a fresh and innovative way of raising awareness about healthy
school lunches as well as providing a positive approach to the
lunchtime experience. There are pages about how the meals are
prepared, what's on the menu, job information, a feedback section,
a contact us section and a competition’s page as well as Trigger’s
Club.
There is also an interactive games page that children, parents,
carers and teachers can play. These are based on parts of the
national curriculum.
You Go 4 It
You go 4 it has been created to
improve the health of today’s teenagers and promote school meals to
secondary school students. On the website teenagers can send in
amusing videos, contribute to message boards, vote on topical
issues, send in their blogs and see what’s ‘in or out’.
Feedback
If you have any feedback about the services provided by the
education contract services, please fill
out the feedback form.
How to contact us
Children, Schools and Families Contract Services
Toby Lane Council Offices
Toby Lane
Stepney E1 4DN
Open: Monday - Friday, 7.00am - 4.30pm
Tel: 020 7364 5161
Fax: 020 7364 5179
Email: School.catering@towerhamlets.gov.uk
Related services
School term and holiday dates